GOT Rumor

[shipperx]

Hope this is true.    It's a book detour that could be easily explained if they wanted to and I've been hoping would happen because it would a) make sense  b) I'd simply like it.

Anyway, from Winteriscoming.net. a rumor:

A Familiar Face Returning to Game of Thrones?

It appears the Faceless Man known to viewers as Jaqen H’ghar may be seen again.

According to the German agency of Tom Wlaschiha, the actor is shooting a 2014 episode of the crime solving series Tatort entitled, “Borowski und die armen Kinder von Gaarden, ” and after that, in August, he’ll begin filming on Game of Thrones. The agency notes that Tom is in the main cast. Given that the website updates their News sections regularly with 2014 projects, and that Wlaschiha has appeared in several notable productions since filming GoT in 2011 (with his appearance airing in 2012), it does look like Arya’s mentor is returning to the show next year.

Wlaschiha has kept busy since his time on Game of Thrones, costarring as Sebastian Berger in Crossing Lines. He played Prince Albert in the 2014 biopic Mr. Turner and will be appearing as Philip Von Hapsburg in series 3 of Canal+’s Borgia.

In the A Song of Ice and Fire series, the face of Jaqen has not been seen since A Clash of Kings, though the Faceless Man (in different form) is still tending to business in Westeros.

The actor’s return has not been officially confirmed by HBO.



Me: I hope this is true. (I've always wanted the show to do this.  Why couldn't "A Man" be "A Kindly Man"?  Better for TV that way anyway.)

Comments

[shapinglight]

I hope it's true as well. Really interesting character.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

From the books it would be amazingly simple to do (since he's a character who can change his face. Both "A Man" (Jaqen) and "A Kindly Man" (?) can change faces as required. So, they could easily either be the same character or, at the least, employ the same face.)

Although there are those who argue that Jaqen already is the book in a different guise in a storyline that I honestly got so bored/mystified by its inclusion that I skimmed/flipped to another chapter.

But, even if those people were right about his inclusion in a different storyline, there's little reason he couldn't do both parts (more economical if he does).

I always hoped that rather than introduce a new character to play (the face?) of "A Kindly Man" that the show would re-use the face we recognize. When "A Kindly Man" didn't appear on the same casting call as "The Waif" (who is also in Arya's storyline), I grew more hopeful that we'd see a familiar face. ::fingers crossed::

[shapinglight]

I always hoped that rather than introduce a new character to play (the face?) of "A Kindly Man" that the show would re-use the face we recognize.

It does make sense. I liked that character a lot and was so disappointed when he changed his face. But I suppose he can do that at will?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It's rather mystical. I'm not sure how often they can re-use a face or whatever. The show may pin it down a bit more (because a visual medium is different from a written one) It's all so shrouded in mystery, and with it being a book, it's often defined by ones own imagination in the way you picture it. It's hard to say exactly (at least not without spoiling a fantastically scary WTF?! OMG! scene that's bound to happen eventually).

They've been laying this into Arya's storyline already, though. There have been easter eggs to foreshadow her Braavosi storyline.